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I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

Billy Crystal

It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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Financial Funny Money
Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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News Puck Puff
A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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Couple Laughing People
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Ashes Friday Passion
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Ghouls Saws Sids
I love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
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Comedian Feet Thinking
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
When comedy is good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.
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Art Comedy Way
We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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Audience Front Growing Men Self Used
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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Frustrating Life Over Starting
Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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Feels Looks Reach
Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
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Golden Problem World
In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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Football Games School
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Happiest Heaven Life Thinking

I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

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I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

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